Welcome to my blog, Classical Greg.
I’m a newspaper editor and writer with 25 years’ experience who took a buyout in August 2008 from The Palm Beach Post, where I had piloted a classical music blog since November 2004. I am now relaunching my personally blabby brand on the Web, where there are a gargantuan number of frighteningly creative people, and I hope not to embarrass myself in their midst.
I’m also a composer with two years of conservatory study at Boston University, and the founder of a composition prize of 15 years’ standing (the Frank Willis Prize) at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University. I have written much incidental music in the past few years for local documentaries about dog-friendly beaches and the citrus industry, as well as Post-related Web projects such as its short-lived but award-winning podcast and video features about the diabetes crisis.
For the Post, I wrote many book and music reviews, and I plan to keep doing that here for as long as time and the Net permit. (You might have read my reviews in the Post or several other newspapers through the medium of the Cox News Service, or seen a post or two of mine featured on sites such as Jerry Bowles’ Sequenza21, or Bud Parr’s Chekhov’s Mistress.)
This blog will feature primarily cultural commentary and news, if I’ve got it, about classical music and literature both new and old. I’ll also wander into jazz and pop, since I write those kinds of music, too, and I hope before too long to feature regular video of local classical events here on the site once I clear the technical hurdles. I’m also planning to put a classical/jazz calendar up, and a live news feed of some kind.
But that’s in the future.
For now, I want to get this blog rolling, and I’ve got some interesting items coming up in the next few days that I expect you’ll find interesting. Or as Heminge and Condell said: “And there we hope, to your divers capacities, you will finde enough, both to draw, and hold you.”
Thanks to all those of you who sent me good wishes on my departure from the Post, and I hope to see you here from time to time.
If you’re a South Florida classical music entity seeking coverage, or you simply want to contact me, send an e-mail to classicalgreg@gmail.com.
